Re: [Sligtly Off-Topic] Status of Linux running on Athlon based boards?

From: Byron Stanoszek (gandalf@winds.org)
Date: Fri Aug 11 2000 - 10:20:26 EST


I own a EP-7KXA motherboard (Via Chipset) with a 750 MHz Classic Athlon CPU.
I experience no problems running with either PC100 or PC133 SDRAM...

However I do get a problem when overclocking the bus to 110 MHz from 100.
But, this is probably expected--I start to get memory errors. I'm wondering if
that's because of non-prime RAM Chips or becuase the CPU can't handle the
speed.. I'm thinking it's the chips though.

FYI, Specs on this machine:

/proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 2
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 751.350481
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 mmxext mmx fxsr 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 1497.50

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0391 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 8391
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 21)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10)
00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev
30)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo
Super AC97/Audio] (rev
20)
00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+]
00:09.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev
34)

/proc/interrupts:
           CPU0
  0: 12998875 XT-PIC timer
  1: 4273 XT-PIC keyboard
  2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
  3: 3 XT-PIC serial
  5: 43449 XT-PIC serial
  7: 1 XT-PIC parport0
 10: 171957 XT-PIC soundblaster
 11: 0 XT-PIC eth0
 12: 12 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
 14: 9028 XT-PIC ide0
NMI: 0
ERR: 0

It supports my ISA AWE 32 pretty well too, as well as UDMA 33/66. :-)

(Linux localhost 2.4.0-test6 #29 Wed Aug 9 23:02:18 EDT 2000 i686 unknown)

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Byron Stanoszek                         Ph: (330) 644-3059
Systems Programmer                      Fax: (330) 644-8110
Commercial Timesharing Inc.             Email: bstanoszek@comtime.com

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